SIGNIFICANCE
When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in World War 2, the Canadian government saw Japanese Canadians as a threat. Even though some of them were born in Canada. As a result they were put into Internment Camps. 22,000 Japanese Canadians were moved by the government into these camps. All their civil rights were taken away. When the war ended they had a choice of either going back to Japan or go some place else in Canada. 4000 Japanese Canadians went back to Japan. If they tried to return to their British Columbia home that they lived in before they went to the internment camp they were given a prison sentence. In 1949 Japanese Canadians were allowed to vote again.